Barbarian Barrel Draft Challenge Tips That Help You Win!
Barbarian Barrel Basics
Cost | Target | Range | Width |
3 | Ground | 6.5 tiles | 3.9 tiles |
Level | Damage | Tower damage | Barbarian Level |
1 | 180 | 63 | 6 |
2 | 198 | 70 | 7 |
3 | 217 | 76 | 8 |
4 | 239 | 84 | 9 |
5 | 262 | 92 | 10 |
6 | 288 | 101 | 11 |
7 | 316 | 111 | 12 |
8 | 347 | 122 | 13 |
First, think about it like a poorman’s The Log.
It has moderate damage and radius. It can push back almost all ground units (except Battle Ram, charging Princes or heavy units like the Giant and P.E.K.K.A).
After rolling, it release a Barbarian. ZERO delay!
There are situations when you make pushes and want to protect it against swarms. Use Barbarian Barrel. You will have a Barbarian to strengthen your pushes afterwards.
Barbarian Barrel is very good vs Magic Archer when you don’t have any other counter in the rotation.
It is also counter glass cannons (Witch, Musketeer etc) extremely well, thus making it a great counter to beatdown pushes.
Use it like the Log, more than anything, it can counter Goblin Barrels, Skeletons, Goblins and Princesses very well.
When trying to tank with it, deploy it with a lead time like the Miner, it takes a few seconds for the Barbarian to pop out
Don’t deploy directly against the tower, a single Barbarian doesn’t last very long and is very easy to counter for cheap.
Add it to existing pushes especially if he’s likely to use swarm troops defensively or if he’s going to try to counter your Ram with a troop like the Knight (who will be distracted)
Last but not least, It is a great counter to Hut placed at the middle.
Think about all of the cases above while picking cards.
Supercell made a really good introducing video for the card. Take a look and you can see all of the noteworthy interactions.
General Draft Tips:
Pick a Win Condition: This is very simply!
Picking a win condition is the most important thing when drafting, because it’s what allows you to take down your opponent’s towers.
Because Flying Machine will be around in every match, you’ll have to pick your win condition carefully. All tanks work great with the Flying Machine, so if you already have picked the Flying Machine, something like a Lava Hound would be much better than a Hog Rider.
The best win conditions in Draft Challenge:
These are the best win conditions in this challenge are Giant, Lava Hound and Golem if you have Flying Machine because they have great synergy together.
Pick card that counter the other: Another straight-forward tip!
For example, If you have the Minion Horde & Arrows Draft, go for Arrows.
Pay attention to what you are giving away: A bit more advanced tip!
Sometimes, the better choice is about making your opponent’s deck worse, not making your deck better.
For example, If you get the choice between Spear Goblins and Rage, go with Spear Goblins. Spear Goblins can’t make your deck better but Rage is definitely one of the worst cards in Draft Challenge.
Cards which are bad in the meta could be OP in the Draft Challenge:
For example, the Witch.
In the normal meta games, people can easily counter Witch with meta cards such as Bowler, Executioner, Knight, Lightning, Baby Dragon etc. However, in Draft Challenges, having those cards is not guaranteed.
Try to pick cards which require specific counters:
Here are some of those cards:
For example, Sparky!
If you have Sparky in your hand while the opponent doesn’t have any Zap effect or swarm card, he will find it extremely hard to deal with the Sparky. This is even worse If you have a good Sparky combo such as Giant Sparky.
Don’t forget spell!
Always pick one of these: Rocket, Lightning, Fireball and Poison.
In case you don’t have any win condition, or your win condition gets countered, you still have something to deal damage.
Last but not least, getting positive Elixir trade with spells is not hard!
Ensure your deck makes scene
Example:
- First pick: Graveyard vs Mega Minion
- Second pick: Baby Dragon vs Musketeer
Although Musketeer can solo kill Baby Dragon, pick Baby Dragon because it is a hard counter to your Graveyard. Also, If you are lucky, you can combo it with Tornado later on.
Challenge Information
- The first entry is free. Next one costs 100 Gems each.
- This is a Draft Challenge. Pick 4 cards and receive 4 from your opponent.
- Unlock the Barbarian Barrel at 12 wins.
Rewards
Number of Wins | Total Prize | One-time Rewards | |
Gold | Cards | ||
0 | 700 | 10 | |
1 | 950 | 15 | |
2 | 1,250 | 25 | 1,000 ![]() |
3 | 1,600 | 43 | |
4 | 2,000 | 65 | 20 ![]() |
5 | 2,500 | 93 | |
6 | 3,100 | 125 | 3,000 ![]() |
7 | 3,800 | 165 | |
8 | 4,650 | 210 | ![]() |
9 | 5,750 | 265 | |
10 | 7,100 | 335 | 9,000 ![]() |
11 | 8,750 | 430 | |
12 | 11,000 | 550 | 10 ![]() |
With the help from darchangels13
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will what is your in-game name? somebody said you were in nova clan
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is this worth my current 6-0 classic challenge? should I try to get 12 wins or focus on barb barrel all the way?
first get 12 wins. You’ve got the whole weekend
ok
Yes definitely.
Getting 1 win in a classic challenge is really all you need to get at least a decent trade of gems. But keep going, might as well.
10-2 now
How are you guys doing?
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haven’t even started yet
WHOA FIRST TRY???
Yeah xD U I know i’m good 😛 Jk
‘Good’ (better the me)
hes will tho
true
Dammmmmmmn, I got 10-3
got three wins:(
Hey guys, I’m going on vacation so no polls for 8 days but that’s fine with you probably. Anyways.
new poll : what do you think about this card? It seems a bit weird to me, and I don’t really know what it is but it looks like a pretty good defense card, and it seems balanced overall. I may be absolutely wrong.
See you in 8 days guys!
I like it 🙂
Have fun btw!
Looks great. Defense in this challenge with the Barb Barrel is clutch. He starts attacking just fast enough to make a difference, and his slow roll speed makes him a better graveyard counter than log. Really helps against those pesky dart goblins and princesses, too.
would he work like a light spell? or a semi-win con?
He does work more like a light spell than a win condition
yeah I could see it being a riskier log, because barbarian might do tons of damage or no damage at all
Like a log
I agree
Light spell most of the time, rarely use him on offense unless there is princess, goblin gang, dart goblin, etc. but if there is a non-swarm troop in there I suggest holding on for defense. It’s a great swarm punisher.
yep he is for defense
Its the reason why I don’t play the game as much as I used too, new cards are pretty much reskins of old cards. It fine with my standards etc but it’s getting boring all the time
I feel like they made the barb barrel as a spell that will make the bait meta go down but will provide more utility so you can use the barb barrel and another cheap spell. Just my thoughts tho.
10-3
4th
4-2.
The first loss was because in card choosing, I was 2 slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsMExWz6Xc
2 fast 4 u
Come on, step it up!
lol
Going to my miner deck
YAY I GOT 12-0 wins!!!(on my third try)
no offence but not need of using 200 gems
anyways,congrats
I did get value off of those gems though, I got 20 three musketeers cards, something like 30k gold, giant chest, 10x barbarian barrel, and a ton of other cards.
I got like 50 flying machines from my giant chest, useless crap
what????? use him with pekka gob hut and ghost and zappies!!!
Lol my flying machine is lvl 3
oof
yep its useful tho!
btw any legendary 😛
5th no one claimed!
8-3 🙁
hallo hoe gaat het?
Good, but what’s with the dutch talking?
4-3 on first attempt
10-3 on 2nd attempt
Haven’t done it on my lvl 9 yet